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Study conducted by
Nomita P. Kumar
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List of Tables
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Chapter IV: Socio Economic Status of Rural Households in District
Lucknow
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Table 30: Distribution of Households by the Type of Financial Assets
Table 57: Households Reporting Three important Facilities which are lacking in village
Table 58: Households Reporting three most important deprivations in their families
Chapter V: Development Gaps and Remedies Thereof
Remedial Measures
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Agriculture and Allied Activities
Industrial Activities
Socio-Economic Conditions
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Lucknow- A District Profile
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
LUCKNOW DISTRICT
Keeping in mind some of the priority areas indicated in the Table above and
some major findings of the survey highlighted in it the following aspects need special
attention whenever a Multi Sectoral Development Plan of the district is attempted.
To sum up, therefore, the areas which need to be given special attention by the
planners and policy makers are:
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Second rank is given to percentage of households having pucca houses. The
households survey highlighted that there is dearth of pucca houses in area and
hence the Indira Awas Yojana needs to be extended to minority families falling
in the BPL category.
The 3 indicator on the third rung of the ladder is electrification of households
which needs proper planning and implementation at the rural areas level. Mere
quantity doesnt fulfills the demand quality of its provision also has to be
ensured for rural areas to develop fast.
The district is emphatically in need of employment generation for females.
Since land holdings are small, the cultivators can be educated to diversify their
activities where possible. Thus, depending on area, suitability and peoples
preference activities such as dairying, poultry farming and cultivation of fruits
and vegetables can be promoted in various blocks of the district. It has been
encountered that the employment generation is the critical lacuna in the district
and especially for female population. The ongoing programme to improve the
productivity and diversification needs to be revamped and revitalized to fulfill
the laid goals of development. Similarly other non-farm activities can be
identified by the Directorate of Industries and on their basis a cluster
development approach can be taken up as it may not be feasible to promote
these activities in each village. Some of the activities which are already being
undertaken include Chikan Embroidery, Achar making, basket and ceramic
pottery making, etc.
The literacy level in the district has not shown any concern as it ranked low on
the scale. The district is in need of schools and colleges beyond the elementary
level especially for girls.
Our survey had revealed that a high proportion of the respondents are desirous
of receiving vocational training. Thus, the government should ensure that such
training programmes be conducted on a regular basis.
The percentage of institutional deliveries is also reported very low in the
district which calls for the sub-centres and PHCs to be upgraded and revamped
so that they can provide services effectively. This will reduce the dependence of
the rural people on unqualified doctors as is the case presently.
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CHAPTER I
1.0 Introduction
In Uttar Pradesh the share of Muslim population is about 18.5 per cent (2001),
which is the largest minority as the other religious minority groups are quite negligible
and combining them all it accounts to 19.5 percent of the total population. Overall
minorities are forming almost one-fifth of the state population and mostly they are
considered deprived class. Ministry of Minority Affairs keeping the objective of
balanced development has undertaken the task to understand the real situation of
minorities in the country, so that accordingly measures may be chalked out to
eradicate the impediments for overall balanced development. One of the latest efforts
in this direction has been in the form of constituting an expert Committee by the
Ministry to identify those districts, which have a minority concentration and are also
relatively backward. The Expert Committee at the centre has tried to locate relatively
backward minority concentrated districts and selected indicators for the identification
on the following criterion:
(a) Religion-Specific Socio-Economic Indicators
(i) Literacy Rate
(ii) Female Literacy Rate
(iii) Work Participation Rate, and
(iv) Female Work Participation Rate
As many as 53 districts were found to have values below the National level
average for both sets of indicators while another 37 had values below the National
average for one or the other set of indicators. Thus, total 90 district from the country
as a whole were selected in which 21 districts were from Uttar Pradesh. The Ministry
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aims at devising suitable policy measures during the Eleventh Plan in order to develop
these districts. The Ministry then identified several institutions in different parts of the
country to carry out a baseline survey of these districts. Giri Institute of Development
Studies, Lucknow has been entrusted to carry out the study of these 21 identified
districts.
To identify 30 villages, the Tehsil of the district where first grouped into the
strata in terms of minority population after arranging them in descending order of
minority population. The first stratum consisted of 20 per cent of the Tehsils and the
second and third stratum constituted 50 and 30 per cent Tehsils respectively. Tehsil
was used for stratification because religion-wise data is available at Tehsil level in
2001 Census. The number of villages selected from each stratum was directly
proportional to the share of each stratum and were selected as per the probability
proportional to size with replacement method.
After identification of 30 villages, house listing was conducted by door-to-door
surv ey in the villages having a population upto 1200. In case of villages with higher
population the different hamlets were considered and 2 hamlets were selected. The
first hamlet was the one where the concentration of minority population was highest
and the other hamlet was selected randomly.
From each village 30 households were selected by listing the households
according to their religion. The samples selected were in proportion to the population
in each religious category according to the systematic random sampling without
replacement method. Thus, the sample of 30 villages and 900 households were
identified and surveyed.
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The report has been prepared in three parts. The first part includes the socio -
economic status of the district. For this, information was collected from district
statistics officer, CDO, District Minority Welfare Office, NABARD, district Lead Bank
and Census records. The second part consists of village study for which quite
substantial data was collected from Tehsil, Block Development Office, CDO and from
Census records besides primary data from fieldwork in the village. The third part of
study is based upon household information for which door-to-door survey of selected
households was conducted by a team of field staff under strict supervision. The list of
selected sample villages where survey was conducted is as follows:
List of Selected Sample Villages in District Lucknow
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CHAPTER II
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF
DISTRICT LUCKNOW
2.1 Introduction
Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh is situated 23 Mts. above sea level. It is
situated on 26.30 & 27.10 North latitude and 80.30 & 81.13 East longitude. Lucknow
covers an area of 2528 sq.km. It is surrounded on the eastern side by District
Barabanki, on the western side by district Unnao, on the southern side by Raebareli and
on the northern side by Sitapur and Hardoi districts. River Gomti flows through the city.
Some of the tributaries of this river are Kukrail, Loni, Beta etc. Sai river flows from the
south of the city and in the east enters district Raebareli. Lucknow is accessible from
every part of India through Air, Rail and Road. It is directly connected with New Delhi,
Patna, Calcutta, Mumbai, Varanasi and other major cities by Amausi airport. Similarly city
is linked to north, east, south and west through rail and road links. In fact rail link joins
Lucknow to Pakistan via Amritsar in the west and to Bangladesh railways in the east. The
population of district Lucknow as per census 2001 is 36,47,834 lacs.
District Lucknow has almost uniformed tropical climate. The temperature varies
from 45 celcius maximum in summer to 5 celcius minimum in winter season. Rainfall is
100 cm. per annum. The forest area is negligible in the district. Shisham, Dhak, Mahua,
Babul, Neem, Peepal, Ashok, Khajur, Mango and Gular trees are grown here. In fact
different varieties of mangoes specially Dashari are grown in Malihabad block of the
district and exported to other countries too. The main crops are wheat, paddy, sugarcane,
mustard, potatoes, and vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, brinjals are grown
here. Similarly sunflowers, roses, and marigold are cultivated on quite a large area of the
land. Apart from this many medicinal and herbal plants are also grown here.
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1991 and 2001. However, the density of population was much above that obtained at the
state level (690 persons per sq. km.). The SC population of the state at 21.3 percent to total
population is above the state average (21.15 percent). A very high percentage of the total
population (36.37 percent) resides in rural areas which means that barely around 63.3
percent is urban in nature. These are very high figure as compared to the state as whole,
where urban population constitutes around 21 percent only of the total state population.
Even in terms of the sex ratio the district with the sex ratio of 888 is below the average
obtained at the state level (890 during 2001). Yet another indicator where the district
leads ahead of the state is in terms of literacy. Total literacy level is 68.7 percent as
compared to 56.3 percent in U.P. as a whole. Similarly male and female literacy rates were
found to be 76.0 and 60.5 percent respectively as compared to the corresponding figure of
68.8 and 42.2 percent in U.P. However, there has been a marked improvement in the
literacy rate in the district as compared to 1991. Despite the fact that the overall work
participation rate in the district (32.24 percent) is higher than the state average (23.7
percent), the work participation rate among females in Lucknow is very low at 5.6 percent
which has registered a decline from 1991 status of 5.9 percent (for details see Table no 1).
Table 1: Demographic Features
Features 1991 2001
Geographical Area (Sq.km.) 2544 2528
Number of Tehsils 3 4
Number of Blocks 8 8
Number of Inhabited Villages 824 822
Average size of the Household
Population (in Lakh)
Total 27.62 36.48
Male 14.81 19.32
Female 12.82 17.16
Sex Ratio 827 888
Density of Population 1093 1456
Decadal Growth of Population (1981-91 and 1991-2001)% 37.14 32.03
SC Population (%) 21.88 21.30
Rural Population (%) 37.34 36.37
Urban Population (%) 62.66 63.63
ST Population (%) 0.04 0.10
Literacy (%)
Total 57.5 68.70
Male 66.5 76.00
Female 46.9 60.50
Work Participation Rate (Nos. & %)
Person 32.24
Male 48.39 41.8
Female 5.9 5.6
Source: Census of India, 2001.
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2.3.2 Demographic Status by Religion
Table 2: Distribution of Population by Religion
Proportion to Total Work Participation
Population Literacy Rate Rate
Religion
Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage
Hindu 2852721 78.20 1703271 70.25 861704 23.62
Muslim 748687 20.52 389542 61.49 209937 5.76
Christian 12286 0.34 10018 90.05 4479 0.12
Sikh 23110 0.63 19282 91.83 6925 0.19
Buddhist 4327 0.12 2 56 4 70.23 1343 0.04
Jain 4118 0.11 3590 94.97 1255 0.03
Others 2585 0.07 362 14.23 133 0.00
Source: Census of India, 2001
If we look at the distribution of the population according to religion Hindus constitute
a little over three-fourth of the total population and this is below the share found in the state
as a whole (80.6 percent). However, Lucknow has a slightly higher share of Muslim population
(20.52 percent) and also of the other religious categories. In fact Sikh population constitutes
only 0.63 percent which is little higher as compared to the state average of 0.4 percent (Table
no 2).
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At this juncture it is pertinent to look into the different housing amenities
enjoyed by the people of Lucknow district. Table 3 reveals that in the district as whole
only around 70 percent households reside in permanent houses. The condition is poor
in the rural areas, where majority of the population is concentrated but only 37
percent of the households reside in permanent houses. However, in urban areas
almost 90 percent of the households have a permanent house. The poor living
condition of the people can be gauged from the fact that around one third of the
households are living in one room house and another one third has only two rooms.
The two categories together account for almost two third of the total households. In
this connection the situation is similar both in rural and urban areas.
As far as the source of drinking water is concerned the maximum number of
households (above 80 percent) obtains water from hand pump/tube wells in rural
areas and only 21 percent use this source in urban areas. The next important source is
tap water. This facility is enjoyed by merely 76.9 percent urban households while
among their rural counterparts this percentage was around 7.1 percent.
In the rural areas the main fuel used for cooking is fire wood with almost 67.02
percent households being dependent on this source. The next in importance is cow-
dung cakes (18.44 percent) and crop-residue (9.02 percent). In the urban areas the
situation is much different. Although fire wood continues to remain the most
important fuel the dependence on it is much lower at around 15.81 percent and the
most important source is LPG with around 69.71 percent of the total households using
it as the source of fuel. These variations between rural and urban areas are also quite
understandable.
3. Structure and Growth in Employment
The distribution of main workers in 2001 by different categories reveals that
almost 21 percent are cultivators while another 6 percent are agricultural laborers.
This is quite understandable in the district where rural population percentage is low as
37 percent (Table no 3). What is remarkable is that the share of population in rural
areas has registered a decline from about 37 percent in 1991 to 36 percent in 2001. In
the same row cultivators declined from 29.73 percent in 1991 to 21.06 percent and
agricultural labourers declined from 8.70 percent to 6.50 percent in 2001. Agricultural
fervor of the workforce shows a decline in favour of non-agricultural activities in the
state.
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Table 4: Employment Structure of the Workforce
District Lucknow 1991 2001 Change
Total Percent Total Percent % Point
Total Main workers 792228 100.00 8 9 8 8 9 0 100.00
Cultivators 235538 29.73 189279 21.06 -8 . 6 7
Agricultural Labourers 68893 8.70 58384 6.50 -2 . 2 0
Livestock 12184 1.54 14824 1.65 0.11
Mining and Quarrying 463 0.06 1531 0.17 0.11
Manufacturing (HHs.) 16673 2.10 39513 4.40 2.29
Non -HHs Manufacturing 67427 8.51 95791 10.66 2.15
Construction 26849 3.39 45751 5.09 1.70
Trade and Commerce 112662 14.22 129523 14.41 0.19
Transport Storage and Communication 38288 4.83 62697 6.97 2.14
Other Services 21 3251 26.92 261218 29.06 2.14
Source: District Sankhyaki Patrika, Lucknow, 2005
Statistical Dairy, Uttar Pradesh 2005
Lucknow district reports a very low proportion of area under forest. The total area
under forest (4.66 percent) is much less as compared to state average which is barely
around 7percent. The district with such a high urban component of total population is
obviously dependent on non-agriculture to a high degree and so the net area sown is
barely 54.85 percent and that too declined from 60.59 percent of total reported area in
1991 (See table no 5).
Table 5: Land use Pattern
Items 1991-92 % 2004 -05 %
Total Reported Area 252162 100.00 251845 100.00
Forests 11408 4.52 11726 4.66
Culturable Wasteland 1137 2 4.51 8628 3.43
Current Fallows 26408 10.47 15102 6.00
Land put to Non -Agricultural Uses 24382 9.67 40607 16.12
Grazing land 3411 1.35 3145 1.25
Area under Trees & Orchards 5451 2.16 2182 0.87
Net Area Sown 152781 60.59 138148 54.85
Area Sown More than Once 56524 22.42 80072 31.79
Gross Cultivated Area 209305 83.00 218220 86.65
Net Irrigated Area 112938 44.79 123225 48.93
Gross Irrigated Area 152308 60.40 184101 73.10
Source: District Sankhyaki Patrika, Lucknow, 2005
Statistical Dairy, Uttar Pradesh 2005
The district is not solely dependent on agriculture since only one third of total
population resides in rural areas (36.37 percent). This had already been indicated by the
fact that cultivators and agricultural labourers put together account for around 37 percent
of the main workers in the district. However, the district is lucky since around 48.9
percent of the net area is irrigated. In fact, this has shown an improvement over 1991-92
figures where only 44.79 percent area was irrigated .
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Table: 6. Irrigation Coverage and Sources (2003 - 04)
Lucknow Uttar Pradesh
Area Irrigated Area Irrigated
Source (in hectares) % (in hectares) %
Canal 20703 3.93 2767233 20.92
Government Tubewell 6186 1.23 379122 2.87
Private Tubewell 97083 67.26 8978021 67.87
Others 1252 27.58 1102962 8.34
Total 125224 100 13227338 100
Now focusing on irrigation on a source wise basis the single most important
source of irrigation that emerges is private tube well and they account for 70.58
percent of the total irrigated area in 2004 -05 which have registered an increase from
41.86 percent in 1991-92. The only other source that has gained popularity is canal
irrigation whose contribution is merely around 22.65 percent in 2004 -05 which have
declined from the 1991-92, 46.49 percent (See Table no 6). Popularity of public
tubewells have declined over the years could be established from the data so available.
Table: 7. No. of Operational Holdings and Area according to
Agricultural Census 1995-96.
Size of Land Holding No. of Land Holdings % Area %
Less than 0.5 Hectare 1111385 91.45 36605 21.01
0.5 - 1 Hectare 56018 4.61 40859 23.45
1 - 2 Hectare 32604 2.68 47037 26.99
2 - 4 Hectare 12591 1.04 33564 19.26
4 - 10 Hectare 2540 0.21 13766 7.90
10 Hectare & Above 142 0.01 2437 1.40
Total 1215280 100.00 174268 100.00
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5. Cropping Pattern
7. Livestock
It is evident from the table 9 that the district has sizeable number of livestock
specially the milch animals, which offers great potential to develop dairy and its
related activities in the district. The data shows that in the year 1997 total livestock in
the district was 619720 and in 2003 it stands at 655097 which shows a decline of 5.7
percent.
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Table 9: Livestock Population in Lucknow District-
(17 th Census-2003)
8. Industrial Development
The industrial development in Lucknow district has been not been very
promising. It is evident from table 10 that number of registered factories per lakh of
population by 2005-06 were around 5.2 only and out of these only 3.2 factories were
in operation and remaining were closed. The working factories provided employment
to 296 persons and produced out put to the tune of rupees 4788 per capita. The
development of industries was also very much tardy in the district. There were just 186
registered working units with 9875 persons employed in 2002-03.
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Table 10: Industrial Development (2003-04)
Lucknow U.P.
Indicators % Growth % Growth
1999-00 2002 -0 3 1999-00 2002-03
Registered & Working units 148 186 25.68 4292 4937 15.03
Submitting Returns 148 186 25.68 4292 4937 15.03
Workers Employed 6488 7106 9.53 282182 319073 13.07
Person Employed 9060 9875 9.00 374817 421016 12.33
Investment (in Lakh) 63697 69084 8.46 5208617 4873499 -6.43
Total Output (in Lakh) 120597 175325 45.38 6882197 8 7 2 3 1 14 26.75
Value Added (in Lakh) 20168 31102 54.21 1166565 1398870 19.91
9. Infrastructure
Uttar Pradesh has the longest rail length, the second longest road length, and
highest number of post offices in India ensuring good connectivity. UP has over 4,800
km of national highways and over 10,000 km of state highways. The state runs
multiple agencies involved in the construction and maintenance of road network with
the Public Works Department (PWD) being the nodal agency. The state government is
going to take up the upgradation of 973 km of important state highways and major
district roads along with major maintenance and rehabilitation of another 2,574 km.
In addition, the PWD will construct four bypasses totalling 20 km and 5 major bridges.
Gaps in the development of important infrastructure in district of Lucknow are
evident when we co mpare the indicators over time (Table 10). Hazards of population
growth are well captured in the economic infrastructure indicators as all the indicators
are transformed in per lakh of population denomination.
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Table 11: Indicators of Economic Infrastructure
Indicators 1999-0 0 2000 -01 2001-02 2002-032003-04
Credit Deposit Ratio 24.5 17.8 21.9 33.1 33.5
Percent of Loans to primary sector to Total Loans 28.7 34.8 14.3 35.9 48.0
distributed
Per Capita Deposit (Rs.) 230643 25225 26612 39064 46165
Per capita Loans Distributed (Rs.) 56426 4497.9 5837.9 1 2 9 2 7 15457
Per capita Loans Disbursed in Primary Sector (Rs.) 16186 1566.1 833.9 4636.2 7415.3
Population per Bank Branch (Commercial and 11.5 11.9 12.2 13 13.8
Rural) in Thousand
Length of Metalled Road per Thousand Sq. K.M. Area (in kms.)
Total 2289.2 2318.4 4825.9 2571.2 2636.9
PWD 536.4 559.7 1 2 8 9 . 6 767.4 833.1
Length of Metalled Road Per Lakh Population (kms.)
Total 163.8 161.1 325.9 160.7 154.4
PWD 38.4 38.9 87.1 47.9 48.8
Length of Railways (kms.) per thousand sq. kms. 73.6 73.6 73.6 73.6 73.6
Population Per Ration Shop (in 000) 6.7 6.8 3.0 8.0 8.1
Number of Telegraph Offices per Lakh of 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3
Population
Telephones Per Lakh of Population 6228.4 5685.1 6159.6 6398.8 4730.4
Post Offices Per Lakh of Population 8 7.8 7.6 7 6.6
Population Per Cinema House (in 000) - - 156 168.8 179.9
Source: District Sankhyaki Patrika, Lucknow, 2005
Statistical Dairy, Uttar Pradesh 2005
However, Lucknow district is better placed in terms of having total pucca roads
of 1940 km. Main district total roads 154 km. per lakh of population stands and roads
under PWD stood at 48.8 km. per lakh of district population. Out of total inhabited
villages (822) in 2004-05, 508 villages are co nnected with metalled roads (61.08
percent). A proper network of roads and railways ensures good connectivity and
facilitates the movement of goods and services to all parts of the district and also in
marketing of the finished products. The infrastructu ral indicators as depicted in the
table above show that the situation in which our district is trapped in over population
as many indicators have shown declining trends when we convert the data in per lakh
of population format. Length of railways has not undergone any change but on the
other hand larger number of post offices and telephone connections and higher credit-
deposit ratio could be observed. The number of post offices and telephone connection
indicate that their number per lac of population is aro und 6.6 and 4730.4 respectively.
(For all these figure please refer the Table No 11)
In terms of financial institution Lucknow had 286 branches of commercial
banks which worked out to 0.08 branches per lac of population. Population served per
branch was around 138000 which is a derivation from 115000 in 1999-00. It
concretely emphasize that per bank branch the burden has increased. Loans disbursed
has also shown an increasing trend as we know that these institutional finance is the
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important means of facilitating investment. In the absence of such opportunity people
are forced to take non-institutional options and end up paying unusually high rates of
interest.
Percent of villages electrified show a positive trends as in 2001 were 97.81
percent and it increased to 98.91 percent in the year 2006 (Sankhiyki Patrika, 2006).
Lucknow being the capital hub of the state has this privilege of being electrified to the
utmost.
Population per ration shop is 8.1 thousand in 2003-04 which has registered an
increase from 6.7 thousand in 1999-00.
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the fourth best university in Asia). Some of the research organisations in the state
include Central Drug Research Institute, Industrial Technology Research Centre,
Central Food Technology Research Institute, National Botanical Research Institute,
Glass Research Institute, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medicine and King
George Medical College. The state has a good network of hospitals and has the highest
number of health care centres in the State as well as the Country.
Under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan the norms which have been laid down are
that there must be one primary school within 1 Km of each village and for a population
of 300 persons. Similarly there should be one upper primary school within 3 Km of
every village and for a population of 800. These norms are mostly met in the district
and the short falls which exist are likely to be removed shortly because additional
schools are planned in each financial year to achieve the required number. However,
from the point of view of higher education as well as technical education facilities are
definitely lacking in the district. In the district having a total population of 36 Lac
there are only 61 degree colleges and 22 PG colleges. (Refer to Table above)
Coming to medical facility there are 0.25 PHC and 0.96 CHC per Lac of
population. The norms which have been laid down are 1 PHC per 30000 of population
and 1 CHC per lac of population. These figure also indicate that in Lucknow both PHC
and CHC fall short of the prescribed norms (Please see Table 12). As far as allopathic
hospitals and dispensary is concerned their numbers was barely 1.04 per Lac of
population in year 2005-06 and the availability of beds in these hospital/dispensaries
was only 110.9 which again is reflective of the poor medical fa cilities found in
Lucknow.
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Table 13: Income and Poverty in Lucknow District and
Uttar Pradesh
Details Lucknow District Uttar Pradesh
Per capita income at 1993 -94 prices (2003-0 4 ) 10389 5975
Per capita income at current prices (2003 -04) 18916 10637
Total number of rural households (BPL census 2002) 272717 24026176
Total Rural Population (BPL census 2002) 1349073 127191122
Total number of BPL households (BPL census 2002) 134809 9956384
Total number of BPL population (BPL census 2002) 661860 49606616
Percentage of BPL households 49.06 27.5
The myths prevailing amongst the population regarding family planning should
be taken care of by the government so that the unprecedented growth of
population leading to high population density could be checked so that its
adverse impact on the employment and income prospects of the people are also
taken care of. The literacy level has also found to be lower in the district and
especially amongst the female population, which if tapped properly could be
very helpful in curbing the growth of population in extraordinary numbers.
The literacy level and work participation rate among the Muslims of the district
has been found to be low when we compare it with Hindus of the district.
Perhaps low literacy and low work participation rates are driving the Muslim
population to live in extreme poverty. The gap between Muslims and Hindus in
terms of literacy and employment is to be abridged if balanced social
development is to be achieved.
According to Census 2001 total cultivators in the district stood at 189279,
58384 agricultural labourers, 39970 are in household industries and 612548 in
others category. Total main workers were 900181. Marginal workers were
186219 in numbers hence making the total workers to be 1086400 which were
29.78 percent of the total population.
The agriculture is still the mainstay of livelihood in the district. Crop intensity
of the diversification is still low despite larger area being brought under
cultivation and irrigation. The productivity of major crops is still lower and
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declining trend could be observed. So, the appropriate planning is required to
fill these gaps in the agricultural sector.
Lucknow has sizeable livestock population and number of livestock per 100 ha
of net area sown stands above the state figure. Proper utilization of livestock
needs emphasis.
Though industrial development in general has not been very impressive in the
district but development in Khadi and Village industries, which have great
potential of employment generation, has been good enough. Thus, the activities
of the Khadi and the Village industry board need to be activated to bridge these
gaps and stop rural urban migrations.
Major infrastructural constraints the district is confronted with are the
conditions of roads, electricity connections are there but its supplies need
proper attention, and the number of bank branches need to be increased at the
district level.
Some vital gaps in educational infrastructure of schools like lesser number of
primary schools, upper primary schools, higher secondary schools and degree
colleges per lakh of population are visible and needs proper assessment by the
district officials. A very high teacher student ratio is also noticed in the district.
These gaps in the educational facilities need eradication.
Proper health infrastructure in the district also is a lack luster figure. So
Primary health centers, Allopathic hospitals and Child/Women welfare centers
are to be increased in the district to keep pace with the increasing population in
the district. The table shows that there numbers per lakh of population have
registered unprecedented decline.
The analysis points to the fact that rural part of the district is comparatively
backward when compared to its urban counterpart. Low return from
agriculture, inadequate employment opportunities and critical gaps in key rural
infrastructure has trapped the rural folks in low incomes and hence low living
conditions in the district. Though the per capita income at current and
constant prices has been much above the state average but the percentage of
BPL households in total households of the distric t is much higher as compared
to the State average. Therefore, proper planning for the composite development
of rural areas of Lucknow District is required to fulfill the ambitions laid down
by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India.
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CHAPTER III
SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF
SAMPLE VILLAGES IN DISTRICT LUCKNOW
Previous Chapter highlighted the issue that our study is confined to 30 village
sample spread over four tehsils of Lucknow district viz; Bakshi ka talab, Malihabad,
Lucknow tehsil and Mohanlalganj. In this chapter an effort has been attempted to
focus on the socio-economic condition existing in the selected villages. We shall here
try to highlight the socio-economic conditions on various indicators such as
demographic features, existing educational and medical facilities, public amenities etc.
to pin point the loopholes for policy formulation.
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Table 2: Occupational Pattern
Category Number of workers Percentage
Cultivators 6190 55.80
Agricultural Labour 1996 17.99
Household Industry 570 5.14
Other workers 2337 21.07
Total 11093 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Total area of 30 villages was reported 16849.02 acres in which maximum 68.77 per
cent was occupied by agriculture, followed by 5.37 per cent by area under non-agricultural
uses, 7.8 per cent under current fallow and rest in other purposes. Area sown more than
once was 6141.64 acres i.e. 36.45 percent. Gross sown area was 16849 acres (See Table 3).
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3.2.4 Status of Non-Agricultural Activities
In non-agricultural activities dairying was dominant in 73.3 per cent villages,
fisheries in 16.67 per cent villages, manufacturing in 16.67 per cent villages, services in
16.67 per cent villages and rest other activities in 13.3 per cent villages (See Table 5).
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1 by semi-pucca roads. Hospital/dispensary services were used by 23 villages within
the block and 6 villages within Panchayats and 1 village within its premises. Average
distance to hospital/dispensary was 8.37 km. and 24 villages were using pucca and 2
villages semi-pucca roads. Most of villages (19) avail health services of private
qualified allopathic Doctors who are available in block where average distance is 5.53
km. About 25 villages avail child care services within block mostly villagers use
pucca/semi-pucca roads. For family planning clinic 22 villages avail services which
are available within block wherever distance is 7.40 kms. mostly by pucca/semi-pucca
roads. Fortunately the road connectivity was found to be good with maximum villages
reporting pucca /semi-pucca conditions. To most villages the chemist/medicine shops
are available within block (See Table 7).
Panchayat
Pucca Mix
Distance
Average
District
Kutcha
Kutcha
Within
Within
Within
Within
Village
Pucca
Pucca
(Kms)
Block
Semi
Type of health Facility
Sub-centre 9 3 18 0 1.67 18 1 0 11
PHC 1 6 23 0 3.57 11 4 0 15
CHC 0 25 5 0 9.13 25 1 0 4
Hospital/Dispensary 1 23 6 0 8.37 24 2 0 4
Private Qualified Allopathic Doctors 2 19 8 1 5.53 24 3 0 3
Child Care Centre 4 18 7 1 4.97 24 3 0 3
Family Planning Clinic 0 22 2 6 7.40 18 10 0 2
Chemist/Medicine Shop 4 15 10 1 4.53 22 5 0 3
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Table 8: Facilities at the Sub-centre or PHC (number of villages)
Facilities Sub Centres PHC
ANM 25 17
Medicines 25 18
Doctor 23 17
Regular Checkup 1 21
Pathological Tests 0 17
X-Ray 0 0
Beds 0 7
Any Other 0 0
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Looking into the frequency of visit of health staff in the village highlights the
fact that the ANM and ASHA are regularly visiting the villages. Except Lady Health
Visitor/ASHA or ANM no other health services are reported covering most of the
villages (See Table 9). These Health providers are the milestone in spreading
awareness among the people regarding importance of sanitation and hygiene and also
to provide health awareness within the precincts of the villages itself. The table 9 is self
explanatory as we can find that other health/ medical staff are visiting the villages
twice in a village only to embark upon there official duty.
To further analyse the health facilities we tried to assess the condition of PHC
building in terms of good, satisfactory, poor and bad. About condition of PHC and
Sub-Centre, good condition was reported by 50.00 per cent villages, satisfactory 50.00
per cent and poor by none villages. For availability of doctor was in 74.01 per cent
villages, their availability for some time was in 33.33 per cent villages and their rare
availability was in 11.1 per cent villages. Medicines were available in 37.0 per cent
villages, occasional problem in availing medicines in 59.3 per cent villages and only in
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one or 3.7 per cent villages there was constant problem of availability of medicines. As
stated earlier rural health services need attention at priority (See Table 10).
As far as ICDS and Aanganwadi centres are concerned their conditions is said
to be good enough. Total 26 Aanganwadis were running in villages in which 11 are in
government buildings and 15 are in private building. Out of 15 Aanganwadis run in
private buildings, 7 are located in the houses of Aanganwadi workers and one each in
Mukhiya house and in PRIs houses and remaining 6 in other location. Except 9
Aanganwadis most of them are run in good, satisfactory and poor buildings. During
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last one month 836 mothers visited the Aanganwadis and 2933 children were
benefited. In most cases, i.e. 92.31 per cent reported that ICDS supervisor visit the
centre, and mostly they visited monthly (See Table 16).
Table 16: Aanganwadi/ICDS Centre
Details Number Percentage
Place of House where located
Govt. Building 11 42.31
Private Building 15 57.69
If Pvt. Building then whose house located
Mukhiya House 1 6.67
Sarpanch 0 0.00
Other PRI representative 1 6.67
Aanganwadi workers 7 46.67
Others 6 40.00
Condition of Buildings
Good 4 15.38
Satisfactory 8 30.77
Poor 5 19.23
Bad 9 34.62
Number of Mothers and Children
visited/benefited during the last one month
Mother 836
Children 2933
Does the ICDS supervisor visit the centre
Yes 24 92.31
No 2 7.69
If yes the:
Weekly 0 0.00
Monthly 20 30.77
Quarterly 4 16.77
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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respectively . Average distance was 1.7 km. However, when it comes to High
School/Higher Secondary School for boys and girls none of the villages had the
privilege of having this category of schools within the village. Some 22 villages avail
High/Higher Secondary (Boys) education in block, while girls of 26 villages also go to
block. Girls of 4 villages go to district schools for secondary education. Average
distance to Secondary Schools is 7.00 kms. and most of the villages are having access
to schools by Pucca and Semi-Pucca roads, except 5 villages by Kutcha road.
Education of religious schools is available within 5 villages and 1 villages avail
education in block, 1 in Panchayat and 25 in district. Average distance is about 2.1
kms. and accessibility is mostly by Kutcha- pucca mix road. In 1 village non-formal
education is available and average distance is 6.13 km through Kutcha-pucca mix
roads. The details related to availability of educational infrastructure, distance which
children slog to school and the nature of connectivity whether Pucca, Kutcha pucca -
Kutcha mix are all provided in the Table below:
Kutcha Pucca
Within Block
Semi Pucca
(average)
Distance
Panchayat
(kms)
District
Within
Within
Kutcha
Type
Pucca
Mix
Primary School 25 1 4 0 0.27 21 4 3 2
Middle School 12 5 13 0 1.70 23 2 3 2
High/Higher Secondary (Boys) 0 22 8 0 6.17 25 1 0 4
High/Higher Secondary (Girls) 0 26 4 0 7.00 24 1 0 5
Religious School 5 1 1 25 2.10 5 1 0 24
Non Formal Education Centre 1 0 0 29 6.13 0 0 0 30
Others 0 1 0 29 6.13 1 0 0 29
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Table 13: Aver age School Enrolment
Class Boys Girls
Class I 14 14
Class II 15 15
Class III 14 13
Class IV 14 14
Class V 12 12
Average enrolment in school 69 68
Average enrolment in class 13.8 13.6
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Condition of Building
Good 14 48.28
Satisfactory 11 37.93
Poor 4 13.79
Very bad 0 0.00
Where classes normally held
In the class room 28 96.55
In the Verandah 1 3.45
Open space 0 0.00
Does the school have useable blackboard
Yes 27 93.10
No 2 6.90
Does the school have playground
Yes 21 72.41
No 8 27.59
Seating facility provided to students
Tat-patti 1 3.45
Desk 28 96.55
How may teachers are currently teaching classes (1-5) 96 -
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Kutcha roads. Average distance from main road was reported to be 4.98 kms. (see Table
17) .
3.5.2 Status of Electricity
Out of 30 sample villages 27 villages reported having electricity connection.
Overall 833 or 17.5 per cent households were having electric connection in which
domestic 94.95, commercial 3.96 and other connections were 1.08 per cent. Proximity
to the capital city really shuns the problem of availability of electricity for these rural
households. Availability of power in villages is to the tune of 9.58 hrs per day is quiet a
good indicator. More power generation and affordable power supply is still required
to have fast pace of development in the district which is capital of the state of Uttar
Pradesh (See Table 17).
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of populations. In the absence of safe drinking water, people fall easy prey to
waterborne diseases.
There are 38 public wells out of which only 5.26 per cent were functional.
Private wells are 230 but only 38 i.e. 16.52 per cent are in working condition. Public
hand pumps are 457 and 79.65 per cent are in working position. Private hand pumps
are 882 and 54.31 per cent are working. All 20 public Tubewells are not in working
condition. Private Tubewells are 4 out of which 100.0 per cent are working. There tap
water is available only in 11 houses (see Table 18).
Table 18: Drinking water
Type Total in villages Functional Percentage (%)
Public well 38 2 5.26
Private well 230 38 16.52
Public Hand pumps 457 364 79.65
Private Hand pumps 882 479 54.31
Public Tube well 20 0 0.00
Private Tube well 4 4 100.00
Public stand post 0 0 0.00
Tap water inside house 11 0 0.00
Tank/river 0 0 0.00
Others 38 2 5.26
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Out of 30 villages only 1 village reported having some toilet facility, rest 29
villages have no toilet facility. Under total sanitation campaign 666 toilets were made
for public usage (see Table 19).
Table 19: Toilet Facilities
Toilet Facility Number of Percentage (%)
Villages
Yes 1 3.33
No 29 96.67
Toilets of Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) 666
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Table 20 below highlights on other facilities such as bus stop, railway station, post
office, market centre, commercial banks etc. Only one villages Block Headquarters is
located within the village, 25 within block and 3 within panchayats at a distance of 11 kms.
For 18 villages nearest town is in Block for 6 in Panchayat and for another 6 in district.
Average distance to town is 12 kms. For 20 villages nearest bus stop is in block, 7 in
Panchayat and for 1 village in district. Average distance to bus stand is 7 kms. For 18
villages nearest regular market is in Block, 9 in Panchayat and 1 in district. Average
distance to regular market is reported 5 kms. Average distance to veterinary centre is 4
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kms. In 1 village Government Procurement Centre is located where as 19 villages are
linked with Block and 10 within Panchayat. Average distance to procurement centre is 6
km. In 25 villages Panchayat Ghar is located, while for 5 it is in Panchayat. Average
distance to Government Procurement Centre is 1 km. (see Table 20).
Average
Type Within Within Within Within Distance
village Block Panchayat District
(km)
Block HQ 1 26 3 0 11
Nearest Town 0 18 6 6 12
Nearest Bus Stop 2 20 7 1 7
Nearest Regular Market 2 18 9 1 5
Nearest Rail Station 1 15 10 4 8
Nearest Post Office 5 10 14 1 3
Commercial Bank 2 17 10 1 5
Gram Panchayat Office 23 0 7 0 2
Fair Price Shop 20 4 6 0 2
Other General Shops 15 8 7 0 2
Veterinary 4 14 12 0 4
Govt. Procurement Centre 1 19 10 0 6
Panchayat Ghar 25 0 5 29 1
Others 1 26 3 0 11
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Others 81 38 46.91 4 39 48.15
Pension Scheme
Old age pension scheme 1254 767 61.16 127 10.13 360 28.71
Widow pension scheme 404 251 62.13 50 12.38 103 25.50
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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3.6.3 Status of SHGs
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8. Youth Mandal 1 29 1
9. Women Mandel 0 30 0
10. Flood Relief Village Security Force 0 30 0
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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whereas 53.33 percent of village do not have such facilities and hence villagers have
to travel an average distance of 0.8 kms to avail such facility
Only very few villages had bank branches. Bank branches will not only prove useful
in making credit available to them on easy terms but they could also prove
beneficial in inculcating the habit of thrift among the people. It is, therefore,
desirable that every village should have at least one bank branch. Moreover, in
many cases banks are reluctant to extend credit facilities to the people. This forces
them to borrow money at extremely high rates of interest from, non-institutional
sources.
Facilities of education upto the Upper Primary level are usually available within the
village itself or in close proximity of the villages, the students have problem when
they have to move out for higher education. Moreover, institutes offering technical
education such as ITIs, and Polytechnics are not found located close to these
villages.
Few Pradhans also informed that there is problem of sanitation and only one
village reported of having toilet facility within household premises. Its a big
nuisance for females of the village because they have to wait for sun to go before
they could go out to defecate.
It was also pointed out that the veterinary services being provided too need to be
strengthened keeping in mind that many families are engaged in the dairy business
while some are keeping goats or poultry.
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fisheries department can play the role of a catalyst in this direction and for this
various efforts were made to procure ponds for ten year lease, training the
persons willing to develop this activity and digging up ponds where required. At
the same time if a proper fish mandi is set up it will facilitate those engaged in
this sector in the marketing of their produce.
v In the villages surveyed by us there is a heavy dependence on agriculture.
However, the cultivators are mainly growing the traditional crops. Their
incomes from agriculture are not substantial as a large number have small size
of land holdings. It is therefore required that appropriate measures are taken
up by the government to enhance the level of awareness among cultivators to
diversify and go for cash crops such as vegetable in particular.
The households are seen primarily being engaged into activities related to
agriculture and animal husbandry sector but those carrying on non-agricultural
activities are low. The traditional craft are carried out by some 16 percent households
on a regular basis and they need encouragement by developing markets for their
produce. However, to assure the success of these non-agricultural activities it is
required to develop the road network, ensure access to credit facilities and marketing
network.
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CHAPTER IV
SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN DISTRICT LUCKNOW
The table (Table 2) showing the caste-wise distribution of communities among 900
sample surveyed households we find the maximum proportion of households belong to SC
46.33 percent, ST 1.0 percent and 38.11 percent being the Upper Caste in the sample.
Specially among Muslims most of the households reported as Upper Caste even though
actually they belonged to OBC, but since they are not aware about OBC reservation and
benefits, they preferred to call themselves as Upper Caste (see Table 2).
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As Lucknow district has the distinction of being under the influence of Nawabi
culture hence we find quiet a number of people speaking Urdu. The majority of our
households reported of Hindi as their mother tongue i.e. 90.33 percent. Despite 16.33
percent of total sample households being Muslims only 9.0 percent reported their mother
tongue to be Urdu (see Table 3). Urdu is the second language of our state is reflected from
the fact that some 50.11 percent households reported Urdu to be their second language.
Even Sikh families stated to be speaking Hindi and 0.44 percent have given Punjabi as
their second language. Only 0.67 percent of households said that they use Punjabi as their
mother tongue.
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because of foeticite and biased family planning among Hindus. The result is that
among Hindus sex ratio is 886 whereas among Muslims it is 930 which means in
comparison to Muslims 44 females are missing among Hindus, which calls for drastic
reforms. Amongst the Sikhs we find presence of male members in more numbers and
lowest sex ratio is reported i.e. 760 females per 1000 males (see Table 5).
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4.1.5 Educational Status of Households.
Table 7: Classification of Population by Level of Education among
Different Religious Groups
Level of Education Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % Total %
illeterates 1478 36.52 470 4 6.59 5 11.36 1893 38.08
Below Primary 628 15.52 206 23.41 5 11.36 839 16.88
Primary 570 14.08 130 14.77 7 15.91 707 14.22
Upper Primary 509 12.58 73 8.30 3 6.82 585 11.77
Matric-Hs 346 8.55 21 2.39 10 22.73 377 7.58
Hs-Pre University -Inter 151 3.73 8 0.91 6 13.64 165 3.32
Technical Diploma 8 0.20 1 0.11 0 0.00 9 0.18
Technical Professional Degree 4 0.10 0 0.00 1 2.27 5 0.10
Graduate-General 84 2.08 3 0.34 5 11.36 92 1.85
PG 29 0.72 2 0.23 1 2.27 32 0.64
Others 240 5.93 26 2.95 1 2.27 267 5.37
Total Educated 2569 63.48 470 53.41 39 88.64 3078 61.92
Total HH members 4047 100.00 880 100.00 44 100.00 4971 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
A cursory look at the educational status of the family members show that 38.08
percent of the family memb ers reported to be illiterate. Around 1/5 rth of the family
members were in the category of below Primary education (16.88 percent). Another 14.22
percent reported to Literate upto Primary, followed by 11.77 percent in Upper Primary
category. The level of Literacy among Muslims is very remarkable to notice by the fact that
23.41 percent were in Below Primary status. There was not much of difference between the
different religious communities. In rural areas as it is education is not very stressed upon
is well highlighted in the table as only a small proportion reported of being technically
trained or having post graduation degree. The table clearly shows that overall educational
level is very low and Muslims are lagging behind the series of laggered.
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Enrolled in Class 8 57 9 66
Enrolled in Class 9 39 3 42
Enrolled in Class 1 0 18 3 21
Grand Total 1051 249 8 1308
Type of School
Government 718 180 2 900
Private 322 61 6 389
Madarsa 9 7 16
Missionary 0 0
Non-formal 2 2
Others 0 1 1
Grand Total 1051 249 8 1308
Distance of School (Km
Within 1 651 181 832
1-2 281 38 2 321
2-4 77 16 4 97
4 and above 42 14 2 58
Grand Total 1051 249 8 1308
Medium of instruction
Hindi 657 146 0 803
English 36 4 2 42
Hindu & English both 358 87 6 451
Urdu 0 12 0 12
Regional Language 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0
Grand Total 1051 249 8 1308
Learning of Minority Language
Yes 119 98 0 217
No 932 151 8 1091
Grand Total 1051 249 8 1308
Reason for Drop out
Work at home 1 1 2
Need to earn 6 4 10
Far distance of School 2 2
Lack facility in School
Teacher Beat
Teacher do not teach
Failed in Examination
Fees/Expenditure not afford 22 9 31
Not interested in reading 4 9 13
Marriage
Other 1 0 1
Grand Total 36 23 0 59
Source: Based on the Primary data.
If we focus our attention on the children of school going age i.e. 5-15 years of
age we find that the total children in this category is around 2.9 percent of them are
not enrolled mainly because their parents do not approve of their education. About
4.38 percent dropped out after being enrolled and it is quiet interesting to note that
91.83 percent are happily enrolled and very regular at the time of survey been
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conducted. Table 8 highlights the fact that large proportion of children are reported in
the category of Class I (18.34 percen t) followed by Class II (15.67 percent) and Class III
(15.36 percent) are further reduction if one moves up the ladder thus pointing to the
fact the children in rural areas very enthusiastically joins school but later drop out due
various hazards. Large proportions of children are seen going to Government schools
(68.62 percent) and only 29.56 percent report of going to private schools. High
concentration of children in government schools points towards inability of their
parents to bear the burden of education in rural areas.
4.1.6 Status of Aspiration of Parents for their Children
About 6.22 per cent parents wanted their sons to get education upto High
School, 29.78 per cent wanted upto Intermediate, 16.89 per cent upto Graduate, 8.00
per cent upto Post-Graduate and only 4.0 per cent Technical Degree. In case of girls
parents 16.22 per cent wanted their daughters to get educated upto High School, 26.44
per cent upto Intermediate and 11.1 per cent upto Graduate. In case of Muslim parents
who wanted their daughters education upto High School, i.e. 19.73 per cent and upto
Intermediate level were 28.57 percent. What is interesting to note is that none of the
Muslim households shown any keenness for technical education for girls whereas 0.68
percent showed such education for boys (see Table 53).
Table 9: Aspirations of Parents of Current Students
Grand
Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % Total %
Boys Desired Level
High School 44 5.90 12 8.16 0 0.00 56 6.22
Intermediate 218 29.22 50 34.01 0 0.00 268 29.78
Pre-Graduation/ Diploma 20 2.68 1 0.68 0 0.00 21 2.33
Bachelors Degree 130 17.43 21 14.29 1 14.29 152 16.89
Post Graduation 66 8.85 6 4.08 0 0.00 72 8.00
Technical Degree 29 3.89 1 0.68 6 85.71 36 4.00
(blank) 239 32.04 56 38.10 0 0.00 295 32.7 8
Boys (Total) 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Girl
High School 116 15.55 29 19.73 1 14.29 1 4 6 16.22
Intermediate 196 26.27 42 28.57 0 0.00 238 26.44
Pre-Graduation/ Diploma 9 1.21 2 1.36 0 0.00 11 1.22
Bachelors Degree 91 12.20 9 6.12 0 0.00 100 11.11
Post Graduation 43 5.76 5 3.40 1 14.29 49 5.44
Technical Degree 12 1.61 0 0.00 3 42.86 15 1.67
(blank) 279 37.40 60 40.82 2 28.57 341 37.89
Girl (Total) 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Source: Based on the Prim ary data.
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The working status of surveyed household population is that 28.8 per cent are
employed, 2.45 per cent unemployed, 21.82 per cent work as domestic workers, 29.48
per cent students, 1.31 per cent retired, 13.3 per cent are too old and children
(unemployable).
Table 10: Working Status of Family Members
Working Status Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % Grand Total %
Employed 1148 29.19 227 27.15 11 25.00 1386 28.80
Unemployed 97 2.47 20 2.39 1 2.27 118 2.45
Domestic Work 857 21.79 186 22.25 7 15.91 1050 21.82
Students 1184 30.1 218 26.08 17 38.64 1419 29.48
Retired 54 1.37 7 0.84 2 4.55 63 1.31
Old/Child 514 13.07 120 14.35 6 13.64 640 13.3
Others 79 2.01 58 6.94 0 0 137 2.85
Total 3933 100 836 100 44 100 4813 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
The figure related to status of work shows that around 27-29 percent persons in
the total population are employed and not much difference could be observed between
Hindus and Muslims. However among the Sikhs it is slightly less i.e. about 25 percent
are employed and more are in the category of students. In household of Sikh
community domestic work category have large number of people more than the
Hindus and Muslims (see Table 9).
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government services categories. Lucknow being the capital city of Uttar Pradesh has less
concentration of workers in the category of agricultural labourer i.e. 4.4 percent of the
total population (as shown in Table above).
However, if we look at the different religious groups separately wide variations
could be perceived. Hindus and Muslims do not show much variation in their
employment status but some 22 percent of Sikhs are self-employed. As observed we
can state that Muslim human resource is comparatively poor than Hindus as Muslims
are less employed as regular salaried and government servants categories. Sikhs are
found to be concentrating on education as highest proportions are found as students
(38.94 percent). Muslim students are the lowest 26.08 per cent when Hindu students
are 30.1 per cent. Similarly among Muslims too old and too young who are unable to
work are comparatively more than Hindus. The poor status of Muslims is the result of
overall poor socio-economic status of the community in comparison to Hindus (see
Table 12).
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proportion of Muslim workers are engaged, i.e. 15.36 per cent, when Hindus are 19.63
per cent (see Table 13).
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Caste Occupation 5 0.42 0 0.00 0 0.00 5 0.34
Animal Husbandry 42 3.54 11 3.99 6 37.50 59 3.99
Others 1 0.08 3 1.09 0 0.00 4 0.27
Grand Total 1185 100.00 276 100.00 16 100.00 1477 100.00
Males
Cultivation 259 24.60 29 12.13 7 50.00 295 22.59
Manual Labour 632 60.02 165 69.04 2 14.29 799 61.18
Professional/Managerial
and Administrative work 74 7.03 1 0.42 0 0.00 75 5.74
Clerk/ Supervisor/
Accountants 7 0.66 1 0.42 0 0.00 8 0.61
Sales/ Business 57 5.41 35 14.64 0 0.00 92 7.04
Caste Occupation 4 0.38 0 0.00 0 0.00 4 0.31
Animal Husbandry 19 1.80 5 2.09 5 35.71 29 2.22
Others 1 0.09 3 1.26 0 0.00 4 0.31
Grand Total 1053 100 239 100 14 100 1306 100.00
Females
Cultivation 18 13.64 3 8.11 0 0.00 21 12.28
Manual Labour 69 52.27 25 67.57 0 0.00 94 54.97
Professional/Managerial
and Administrative work 11 8.33 0 0.00 0 0.00 11 6.43
Clerk/ Supervisor/
Accountants 2 1.52 1 2.70 0 0.00 3 1.75
Sales/ Business 8 6.06 2 5.41 1 50.00 11 6.43
Caste Occupation 1 0.76 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.58
Animal Husbandry 23 17.42 6 16.22 1 50.00 30 17.54
Others 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
Grand Total 132 100 37 100 2 100 171 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Table 15:Distribution of households by size category of Land holdings
(owned land) (In Acres)
Size of Holding Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % Grand Total %
Below 1 226 30.29 44 29.93 0 0.00 270 30.00
Landless 296 39.68 84 57.14 0 0.00 380 42.22
1.00 -2.50 172 23.06 15 10.20 0 0.00 187 20.78
2.50 -5.00 38 5.09 3 2.04 3 42.86 44 4.89
5.00 -7.50 10 1.34 1 0.68 0 0.00 11 1.22
7.50 -10.00 3 0.40 0 0.00 1 14.29 4 0.44
10.00 & above 1 0.13 0 0.00 3 42.86 4 0.44
Grand Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Average land per
HHs.(acres) 0.79 0.47 11.71 0.82
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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1.03 per cent. Milch animals with Muslims are 13.36 per cent which are almost
proportionately half of Hindus, i.e. 25.71 per cent. Draught animals are 0.58 per cent
with Muslims which are quite less than Hindus, 8.72. Overall average number of
animals per Hindu and Muslim surveyed household is worked out 1.7 and 1.6 per cent
whereas for Sikh this number stands at 8.3 per households (see Table 18).
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The most important source of income of the households is non-agricultural wages
thus pointing towards diversification that is taking place in the district of Lucknow.
Second main source of income the rural areas of Lucknow is obviously agriculture sector
followed by services and agricultural wages. What is interesting to find is that non-
agricultural sector if the basic source of income for the rural residents of Lucknow thus
showing a drift away from agriculture though it still is the secondary important source for
Hindus as well as Muslims. Sikhs have shown their source of livelihood to be from
agriculture with 61.64 percent having their earning from it and another 17.67 percent from
animal husbandry.
Table 20: Classification of Households by Sources of Income
Sources of Income Hindu Muslim Sikh Grand Total
Agriculture 4173855 631440 572000 5377295
% 22.3 16.33 61.64 22.87
Animal Husbandry 973376 60000 164000 1197376
% 5.2 1.55 17.67 5.09
Artisan Work 39000 486900 0 525900
% 0.21 12.59 0 2.24
Trade 1171800 247100 0 1418900
% 6.26 6.39 0 6.04
Manufacturing 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
Agricultural Wages 2142260 266700 2408960
% 11.45 6.9 0 10.25
Non-agricultural Wages 5 2 7 4 200 1382460 6656660
% 28.18 35.76 0 28.31
Services 3674400 121000 3795400
% 19.63 3.13 0 16.14
Interest 13000 30000 43000
% 0.07 0.78 0 0.18
Remittances 106900 40000 146900
% 0.57 1.03 0 0.62
Pension 426050 93300 132000 651350
% 2.28 2.41 14.22 2.77
Others 721450 507050 60000 1288500
% 3.85 13.12 6.47 5.48
Total 18716291 3865950 928000 23510241
% 100 100 100 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
In trade also Muslim households are 6.39 per cent which are similar to Hindus,
i.e. 6.26 per cent. Muslim households receiving income from remittances were 1.03
per cent when Hindus were only 0.57 per cent. Proportion of Muslim households
receiving income from services is quite low and also low in comparison to proportion
of Hindu households (see Table above).
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Total average annual income per household from various sources is Rs.26122 . The
community -wise average is, among Hindus Rs. 25089, Muslims Rs. 26299 and maximum
in Sikh households Rs. 132571. Sikhs maintain their high economic status comparatively
with an average income much above rest of the communities (see Table 21).
More than 90.0 per cent sample households were coming under less than
Rs.50,000 annual income both among Hindus and Muslims. In higher average income
slab of Rs.50000-100000 46 Hindu, 10 Muslim and 1 Sikh household was recorded.
Table 22: Distribution Households by size of family income (yearly)
Income(000) Hindu Muslim Sikh Grand Total
Below 15 312 44 1 357
% 41.82 29.93 14.29 39.67
15 -25 244 53 0 297
% 32.71 36.05 0 33
25-5 0 125 37 1 163
% 16.76 25.17 14.29 18.11
50 -100 46 10 1 57
% 6.17 6.8 14.29 6.33
100-150 9 1 0 10
% 1.21 0.68 0 1.11
150-250 6 2 3 11
% 0.8 1.36 42.86 1.22
250-400 3 1 4
% 0.4 0 14.29 0.44
400 & above 1 0 1
% 0.13 0 0 0.11
Grand Total 746 147 7 900
% 100 100 100 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Now focusing our attention to expenditure pattern of the selected households is
very pertinently correlated to their level of income. Consequently the average annual
expenditure per household is around Rs. 38198. Average per household annual
expenditure is worked out to be Rs.38198, which among Hindu, Muslim and Sikh
households, it was Rs.34068, Rs.45556 and Rs.109126 respectively. Expenses in Sikh
household were more than double of other communities. Maximum expenditure was
on cereal and pulses followed by vegetable, meat, milk, spices, sugar, etc., however, on
these items Hindu household expenses were comparatively less than other
communities. Sikh households were comparatively spending more on education while
Hindu were spending more on medical. Payment of Loans and interest was done more
by Muslims households and hence show that they are the most indebted ones
compared to other communities (see Table 23).
Table 23: Average Household Expenditure on different heads
Hindu Muslim Sikh Total
Expenditure Heads
Cereal And Pulse (Total) 8383.86 10127.99 16476.19 8744.24
% 24.61 22.23 15.1 22.89
Purchased 4357.40 5741.66 6133.33 4592.02
Own Produce 4026.46 4386.32 10342.86 4152.21
Vegetable, Meal, Milk, Spices,
Sugar etc (Total) 5410.64 5861.44 14502.38 5645.16
% 15.88 12.87 13.29 14.78
Purchased 3259.06 3265.98 6085.71 3282.17
Own Produce 2151.58 2595.45 8 4 1 6 . 6 6 2362.99
Cloths Footwear Beddings 1165.08 1291.25 4500 .0 1211.68
% 3.42 2.83 4.12 3.17
Education 1624.51 1107.19 9233.33 1623.87
% 4.77 2.43 8.46 4.25
Medical 2744.83 3153.41 7457.14 2848.36
% 8.06 6.92 6.83 7.46
Ceremonies 1067.33 1282.27 4000 .0 1125.60
% 3.13 2.81 3.67 2.95
Fuel 1261.69 1607.91 7566.66 1404.97
% 3.7 3.53 6.93 3.68
Telephone 1090.96 952 .00 2 0 0.00 1061.87
% 3.2 2.09 0.18 2.78
House 3185.11 3 9 7 9 . 7 3 10000.00 3401.97
% 9.35 8.74 9.16 8.91
Payment of loans and interest 3 8 4 2.00 1 1 4 9 4 . 1 2 24500.00 6640.92
% 11.28 25.23 22.45 17.39
House repairing / construction 9 4 6 . 64 1073.02 1550 970.68
% 2.78 2.36 1.42 2.54
Recreation 422.26 365.81 1 6 6 0.00 433.26
% 1.24 0.8 1.52 1.13
Marriage and other ceremonies 1794.56 2 5 1 7 . 1 2 3814.28 1936.57
% 5.27 5.53 3.5 5.07
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Others 1128.93 743.52 3666.66 1149.13
% 3.31 1.63 3.36 3.01
Total 34068.45 45556.82 109126.7 38198.33
% 100 100 100 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Overall 77.00 per cent household fall in less than Rs.25,000 annual expenditure
slab. In higher expenditure slabs Muslim households are almost nil whereas Sikhs are
absent in the lower expenditure slabs (see Table 24 ).
Table 24: Distribution of households by size of Expenditure (Annual)
Expen (000) Hindu Muslim Sikh Grand Total
Below 15 332 42 0 374
% 44.5 28.57 0 41.56
15 -2 5 258 61 0 319
% 34.58 41.5 0 35.44
25 -5 0 115 39 2 156
% 15.42 26.53 28.57 17.33
50 -100 35 4 3 42
% 4.69 2.72 42.86 4.67
100-150 6 0 1 7
% 0.8 0 14.29 0.78
150-250 0 1 1 2
% 0 0.68 14.29 0.22
250-400 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
400 & above 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
Grand Total 746 147 7 900
% 100 100 100 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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50 -7 5 20 1 0 21
% 2.68 0.68 0 2.33
7 5 -100 9 2 0 11
% 1.21 1.36 0 1.22
100 & above 21 1 6 28
% 2.82 0.68 85.71 3.11
Grand Total 746 147 7 900
% 100 100 100 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Agricultural equipments are available with 73.59 per cent Hindu households, when
the same is possessed by 36.05 per cent Muslim households, which are just half of Hindu
households. Good proportion of Hindu households possess fodder cutter, plough and
pumpsets. Proportion of Muslim households possessing fodder cutter and plough are 10.8
and 6.12 per cent respectively. Tractors are possessed by 71.43 percent of Sikh households
and only 1.2 percent of Hindu Households. In agriculture most important implements are
tractor and pumpsets which are least with Muslim households.
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Handloom 0 1 0 1
% 0 0.68 0 0 .1 1
Powerloom 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
Welding 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
EleRepaire 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
Motor Repair 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
Sewing 17 15 0 32
% 2.28 10.2 0 3.56
NonAgOthers 39 5 0 44
% 5.23 3.4 0 4.89
Total 56 21 0 77
% 7.51 14.29 0 8.56
Source: Based on the Primary data.
With certain variation, both Hindu Muslim and Sikh households are in possession of
cycle i.e. 78.69, 70.75 and 85.71 per cent respectively. Income generating non-agricultural
equipments is maximum with Muslim households (14.29 percent) and that too 10 percent are
having sewing machines depicting that they are tailors. Saving bank/post office account is with
85.7 per cent Sikhs, 57.91 percent Hindus while only 47.52 per cent Muslim households have
it. About 51 per cent Hindu households have fixed deposit when only 37 per cent Muslim
households have it (see Table 30).
Table 28: Distribution of Households by Ownership of Means of Transport
Assets Hindu Muslim Sikh Total
Jeep 1 2 3
% 0.13 0 28.57 0.33
Truck 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
Bu s 0 0 0 0
% 0 0 0 0
Car 5 1 0 6
% 0.67 0.68 0 0.67
Mcycle 44 7 5 56
% 5.9 4.76 71.43 6.22
Scooter 3 1 0 4
% 0.4 0.68 0 0.44
Cycle 587 104 6 698
% 78.69 70.75 85.71 77.56
Total 640 113 13 767
% 85.79 76.87 185.71 85.22
Source: Based on the Prim ary data.
Different transport vehicles are available with 85.7 per cent Hindu households, while
76.87 per cent Muslim households. Modern household assets are available with 27.35 per cent
Hindu households while it is only 19.7 per cent with Muslim households. Financial assets are
available with 85.8 per cent Sikh households 59.9 per cent Hindus and 47 percent Muslim
households.
Table 29: Distribution of Households by Ownership of
Modern Household Assets
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Assets Hindu Muslim Sikh Total
Fan 116 32 6 154
% 15.55 21.77 85.71 17.11
Cooler 8 5 2 15
% 1.07 3.4 28.57 1.67
TV 108 18 6 133
% 14.48 12.24 85.71 14.78
Refrigerator 14 2 5 21
% 1.88 1.36 71.43 2.33
CD 31 3 5 39
% 4.16 2.04 71.43 4.33
LPG 46 9 5 60
% 6.17 6.12 71.43 6.67
Phone 8 2 1 11
% 1.0 7 1.36 14.29 1.22
Mobile 88 21 4 113
% 11.8 14.29 57.14 12.56
Furniture 246 50 5 301
% 32.98 34.01 71.43 33.44
HHothers 204 29 1 234
% 27.35 19.73 14.29 26
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Table 31 shows the cost of all productive assets, which the different communities
possess. Overall, the cost of agricultural inputs is high (Rs.4734). The value of financial
assets is Rs.8071, followed by modern assets like T.V., radio, mobile etc. Rs.2342, non-
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agricultural implements Rs.103 and transport Rs.5746. Relatively, Sikhs have maximum
assets than that of other religious groups in all categories.
In value terms per Hindu household value of asset comes Rs.18263.77 and for
Muslims it is only Rs.13166.33. It means that average per household Muslims have only
61.67 per cent in terms of value of assets what average Hindu household posses. Per
Hindu household average agricultural equipment value is Rs.3158.67 and for Muslim
household it comes only Rs.674.97, which is only 21.4 per cent of Hindus assets. Value of
non-agricultural equipment per Hindu household is Rs.119.34 when it is only Rs.26.87 for
average Muslim household or only 22.51 per cent of Hindus average assets in terms of
value. Average value of modern asset per Hindu and Muslim household is worked out
Rs.2179.06 and Rs.1619.59 respectively. Average financial asset per Hindu household is
Rs.8070 and Muslim household is only Rs.4977 or 74.3 per cent of Hindus asset. It shows
that Muslims are The deprived lot in rural Lucknow though the condition of Hindus is also
not very good.
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7 5-9 0 1 0 0 1
% 0.13 0 0 0.11
90 & above 5 1 2 8
% 0.67 0.68 28.57 0.89
Grand Total 746 147 7 900
% 100 100 100 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Manual Labour 60 18 0 78
Cast Occupation (Total) 3 3 0 6
Cultivate 0 0 0 0
Grand Total 85 26 0 111
Place of Migration
Within District (Rural) 10 7 0 17
Within District (Urban) 53 7 0 60
Within State (Rural) 2 0 0 2
Within State (Urban) 6 0 0 6
Outside State (Rural) 1 4 0 5
Outside State (Urban) 13 0 0 13
Outside Country 8 0 8
Grand Total 85 26 0 111
Duration of Migration Grand Total
Short Term 40 5 0 45
Long Term 19 8 0 27
Daily Commuters 26 13 0 39
Grand Total 85 26 0 111
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Among the households who wanted training over all 7.0 per cent wanted
computer training, and 47.44 per cent training in rural industries, which are
maximum. In agriculture cottage industry, hair cutting and carpentry least
households showed their interest in getting the training. Among Hindu and Muslim
communities almost equal proportion of households wanted training in animal
husbandry.
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Table 35 : Details of Training Described by Households
Training Type Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % Total %
Traditional Handicraft 1 0.13 1 0.68 0 0.00 2 0.22
Driver 2 0.27 0 0.00 0 0.00 2 0.22
Repairing work 25 3.35 7 4.76 0 0.00 32 3.56
Electrician 3 0.40 1 0.68 0 0.00 4 0.44
Computer 56 7.51 5 3.40 2 28.57 63 7.00
Education (B.Ed.,
B.Tc) 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
ITI/Polytechnic 1 0.13 1 0.68 0 0.00 2 0.22
Animal Husbandry 4 0.54 3 2.04 0 0.00 7 0.78
Agriculture 1 0.13 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.11
Small Industry 10 1.34 7 4.76 0 0.00 17 1.89
Rural Industries 364 48.79 60 40.82 3 42.86 427 47.44
No Response 279 37.40 62 42.18 2 28.57 343 38.11
Grand Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Regarding duration of training, 22.56 per cent households are willing to get
training upto 3 months, followed by 38.44 per cent upto 3 - 6 months and 3.56 per
cent upto 3 years. Hindus proportion is higher in upto 3 months and 1-3 years
duration of training than that of rest communities. Sikhs also showed their interest in
getting trained. Religion-wise details are shown in table 36.
Table 36 : Duration of training Described by Families
Training
Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % Total %
Duration
3 Months 176 23.59 25 17.01 2 28.57 203 22.6
3 -6 Months 284 38.07 61 41.5 1 14.29 346 38.4
1-3 Years 27 3.62 3 2.04 2 28.57 32 3.56
No Response 259 34.72 58 39.46 2 28.57 319 35.4
Grand Total 746 100 147 100 7 100 900 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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cards as against 41 per cent of Muslim households and 36 per cent of Hindu
households. Majority of the households (84 per cent) get the ration from PDS and the
Muslim households who obtain ration from PDS is 84 per cent versus 83 per cent of
Hindu households.
The quantity of items (wheat, rice, sugar, kerosene etc.) obtained from the PDS by
the sample households is inadequate. The non-availability of PDS items in time is the
main problem faced by the PDS beneficiaries. Less weight and insufficient quantity are
two other major problems. Lack of timely supply in PDS is the most important reason
for not getting the PDS items for all the households. While the lack of money is the
prime reason for the Muslims households of not taking PDS items, lack of timely
supply in PDS is the most important reason for not getting PDS items for the Hindu
households.
Table 37: Households reporting about Public Distribution System
Are you in BPL Grand
Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % %
Category Total
Yes 511 68.50 91 61.90 0 0.00 602 66.89
No 235 31.50 56 38.10 7 100.00 298 33.11
Grand Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Do you have BPL card
Yes 274 36.73 61 41.50 0.00 335 37.22
No 472 63.27 86 58.50 7 100.00 565 62.78
Grand Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Do you get ration from PDS
Yes 626 83.91 124 84.35 6 85.71 756 84.00
No 120 16.09 23 15.65 1 1 4 .2 9 144 16.00
Grand Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
11.4 If yes, the mention Avg/HHs Avg/HHs Avg/HHs Avg/HHs
quantity (Kgs.)
Wheat 3781 6.04 1087 8.77 0 0.00 4868 6.44
Rice 5110 8.16 1070 8.63 0 0.00 6180 8.17
Sugar 581.05 0.93 169.5 1.37 0 0.00 750.55 0.99
Kerosene(lts.) 2015 3.22 384 3.10 118 19.67 2517 3.33
Others
Problems Faced in PDS
Insufficient quantity 32 8.04 5 10.87 1 12.5 38 8.41
Bad quality 16 4.02 4 8.70 0 0 20 4.42
Less weight 91 22.86 7 15.22 1 12.5 99 21.90
Non-availability in time 255 64.07 28 60.87 5 62.5 288 63.72
Others 4 1.01 2 4.35 1 12.5 7 1.55
Total 398 100.00 46 100.00 8 100 452 100.00
Are you capable of getting your share of PDS?
Yes 415 55.63 77 10.32 5 0.67 497 66.62
No 2 82 37.80 60 8.04 1 0.13 343 45.98
blank 49 6.57 10 1.34 1 0.13 60 8.04
Total 746 100.00 147 19.71 7 0.94 900 120.64
If no, then reasons:
1. Lack of money 20 20 10.26 4 16.67 0 0.00 24
2.Lack of supply in PDS 20 20 10.26 1 4.17 0 0.00 21
3. Discrimination by 23 23 11.79 8 33.33 0 0.00 31
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PDS trader
4. Others 132 132 67.69 11 45.83 3 100.00 146
Total 195 195 100.00 24 100.00 3 100.00 222
Note: Figures in brackets indicate percentages.
Source: Primary data based.
Households reported that they get average around 6 kg wheat, 8 kg rice, less than 1
kg sugar and 3 litres of kerosene per month. Among Hindu and Muslim communities the
quantity of ration is about the same. Overall 84 per cent sample households reported that
they are able to get their share of ration from PDS, however 16 per cent households were
not able to receive it. Those households who were not able to receive their share of ration
from PDS reported various problems like 10.81 per cent due to lack of money, 9.46 per
cent due to lack of supply of PDS, 13.96 per cent due to discrimination by PDS trader and
65.77 per cent due to many other reasons. Among Hindu and Muslim households more or
less the same situation was found.
4.3.2 Status and Awareness of SGSY
Overall less than half(44.56 percent) of the total 900 sample surveyed
households reported that they are aware about the SGSY government programmes,
except Muslim households were slightly lacking behind as 10.67 per cent reported to
be aware. In SGSY overall 5 households were benefited which are only 1.25 per cent of
the total aware households. Households belonging to Hindu and Muslim communities
were almost proportionately benefited with 4 and 1 household respectively. Most of
the selections for Hindu households were made by NGO/SHGs, Sarpanch and
Secretary while Muslim households were mostly selected by Sarpanch. Out of 26
Hindu households beneficiaries, 3 reported that they paid the commission. All the
beneficiary households reported that their families are benefited by the programme.
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Awareness Yes 598 80.16 103 70.07 7 100.0 708 78.67
Benefited Yes 114 19.06 15 14.56 1 14.3 130 18.36
Did you pay commission
Yes 14 12.28 4 26.67 0 0.0 18 13.85
TSC/Swjaldhara
Awareness Yes 497 66.62 90 61.22 7 100.0 594 66.00
Benefited Yes 342 68.81 51 56.67 2 28.6 395 66.50
Did you pay commission
Yes 5 1.46 0.00 0 0.0 5 1.27
_ARWSP
Awareness Yes 449 60.19 93 63.27 6 85.7 548 60.89
Benefited Yes 299 66.59 81 87.10 0 0.0 380 69.34
Did you pay commission
Yes 11 3.68 1 1.23 0 0.0 12 3.16
Sarvasikhsa
Awareness Yes 661 88.61 130 88.44 7 100.0 798 88.67
Benefited Yes 353 53.40 82 63.08 1 14.3 436 54.64
Did you pay commission
Yes 14 3.97 2 2.44 0 0.0 16 3.67
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Under TSC Swajaldhara, i.e. Total Sanitation Campaign Swajaldhara, only one-
third households were found aware, even in the same proportion among communities.
Overall 594 households reported benefited in which 497 were Hindus and 90 were
Muslims and 7 were Sikhs. Beneficiaries were selected either by Sarpanch or Secretary. In
all 5 beneficiaries paid the commission and reported the level of corruption in the
government machinery and 395 households reported that their families were benefited.
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was stomach disease in which Hindus 14.10 and Muslims 14.49 per cent were
suffering. There were many unspecific diseases reported in which people were
suffering.
Table 40: Health and Family Welfare
Disease Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % All %
Fever 475 48.52 93 43.46 1 11.11 569 47.34
Jaundice, Typhoid 18 1.84 2 0.93 0 0.00 20 1.66
ENT 63 6.44 12 5.61 2 22.22 77 6.41
Accident 50 5.11 6 2.80 0 0.00 56 4.66
Stomach related 138 14.10 31 14.49 3 33.33 172 14.31
Cancer, T,B 27 2.76 7 3.27 0 0.00 34 2.83
Any other 208 21.25 63 29.44 3 33.33 274 22.80
Grand Total 979 214 9 1202
Average Days of Treatment 49.6 44.86 83.56 49.01
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Average duration of suffering was reported 49 days, but among Muslims the
average duration of suffering was 44.86 days, when among Hindus it was 49.6 days.
Sikhs are seen to be suffering more on average days of treatment i.e.83 days (see Table
40).
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Among total 1202 sick persons 315 persons reported were admitted in hospital.
Among overall total 258 Hindu patients 26.35 per cent, among 52 Muslim patients
24.30 per cent and out of total 1202 patients 26.21 per cent patients were hospitalized.
It was found that due to lack of health services, the patients with serious diseases
could not get admission in hospitals. Average expenditure incurred by the patients is
more amongst Sikhs followed by Muslims and Hindus (see Table 41).
4.4.3 Status of Immunization among Children
Overall proportion of immunization among Hindu children is higher than the
children of Muslim community. Among Hindu and Muslim children the immunization
against polio is highest followed by BCG, small pox/chicken pox DPT/Diphtheria and
the least for hepatitis (see Table 42). The respondents were enquired about the
immunization of their children up to the age of 5 years. It was reported that maximum
(87.99 percent) children were given polio drops. It was higher in case of children of
Hindus (91.53 per cent) as against the Children of Muslims (73.53 percent). The
percentage of immunization of Muslim children was found to be lower to that of
Hindu children in case of entire four major diseases (Table 42).
With regard to the place of immunization we come across the fact that
Asha/Midwife are the favourite source for immunization amongst the villagers
followed by government hospitals for the 24.95 percent of the vaccinations.
Table 42: Immunization of Children(5 years of age)
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4.6 Status of Housing and Amenities
4.6.1 Housing Status
The ownership of houses is of two types in rural areas of Lucknow district.
One is the self ownership and other is the houses provided under the Indira Awas
Yojana. It is to be recorded here that the percentage of Muslims who have been given
houses under the Indira Awas Yojana is higher to that of the Hindus in the district
(Table 43). Among surveyed Hindu and Muslim households 92.23 and 91.16 per cent
are respectively owners of their houses, while 7.51 and 6.8 per cent have Indra Awas or
government houses.
Table 43: Distribution of Households by the Type of Ownership of Houses
Ownership Hindu Muslim Sikh Grand Total
Own 688 134 7 829
% 92.23 91.16 100 92.11
Indira Awas/Govt. 56 10 66
% 7.51 6.8 0 7.33
Rented 2 3 5
% 0.27 2.04 0 0.56
Grand Total 746 147 7 900
% 100 100 100 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
Table 44: Distribution of Households by the Type of Houses
Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % Grand %
Total
Thatched 218 29.22 46 31.29 0 264 29.33
Khaprail/Khaprail 92 12.33 14 9.52 0 106 11.78
Semi-Pucca 303 40.62 56 38.1 1 14.29 360 40
Pucca 114 15.28 23 15.65 6 85.71 143 15.89
Others 19 2.55 8 5.44 0 27 3
Grand Total 746 100 147 100 7 100 900 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Three 116 15.55 17 11.56 0 0.00 133 14.78
Four 44 5.90 8 5.44 5 71.43 57 6.33
Five 13 1.74 3 2.04 0 0.00 16 1.78
Six & Above 11 1.47 1 0.68 0 0.00 12 1.33
Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Provided by Government
Panchayat 54 7.24 9 6.12 1 14.29 64 7.11
Landlords Land 8 1.07 5 3.4 13 1.44
Others 3 0.4 1 0.68 4 0.44
Grand Total 746 100 147 100 7 100 900 100
Source: Based on the Primary data.
The table 47 shows that around 91 per cent of total homestead are owned.
Around 7.11 per cent has been provided by government. There is no major difference
across the religious groups of Hindu and Muslim as far the ownership of homestead is
concerned.
4.6.2 Status of Housing Amenities
More than 81 per cent houses have no electric connection. Sikh houses are the most
electrified households with 85.71 percent being electrified, followed by Muslims (25.85
percent) and Hindus (17.02 percent).
The majority of houses are still using Kerosene oil lamp for lighting of their
houses (Table 50). This is true also in case of Muslim and Hindu houses but it has
been reported that 71.43 per cent of Muslim houses are using oil lamp while 74.53 per
cent of the Hindu households use oil lamp.
Grand
Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % %
Total
Own Hand-pump 197 26.41 33 22.45 3 42.86 233 25.89
Public Hand-pumps 495 66.35 99 67.35 2 28.57 596 66.22
Tap in dwelling 24 3.22 10 6.80 2 28.57 36 4.00
Own protected well 4 0.54 0.00 0.00 4 0.44
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Own Unprotected
well 13 1.74 1 0.68 0.00 14 1.56
Public Unprotected
well 9 1.21 1 0.68 0.00 10 1.11
Public Protected well 1 0.13 2 1.36 0.00 3 0.33
Public tab 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Pond/River/Stream 1 0.13 0.00 0.00 1 0.11
Others 1 0.13 0.00 0.00 1 0.11
(blank) 1 0.13 1 0.68 0.00 2 0.22
Grand Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 1 0 0.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
More than 25 per cent houses either owned hand pumps. Highest proportion of
the household (66.22 percent) depends on Public hand pumps. About little less than
half of houses have drinking water source within the premises and about 66.22 per
cent households got water at a distance upto 100 metres. Only 25 percent households
have the privilege of having water facility within house premises.
Table 5 1: Classification of Households According to Distance from Sources
of Drinking Water
Distance Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % All %
With in House 197 26.41 33 22.45 3 42.86 233 25.89
Up to 100 meters 495 66.35 99 67.35 2 28.57 596 66.22
100-250 meters 46 6.17 7 4.76 2 28.57 55 6.11
Above to 250 meters 8 1.07 8 5.44 0 0.00 16 1.78
Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
About 91.82 per cent Hindus and 71.43 per cent Muslims dont have toilet
within their premises. About 76.0 per cent households either use wood or cow-dung as
source of fuel. (see Table 51).
Table 52: Classification of Households According to Toilet facility
Grand
Toilet Facility Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % %
Total
In house 61 8.18 42 28.57 6 85.71 109 12.11
Outside House 685 91.82 105 71.43 1 14.29 791 87.89
Grand Total 7 46 100 147 100 7 100 900 100.00
Toilet Type 0 0 0 0.00
1 Septic tank latrine 20 2.68 7 4.76 2 28.57 29 3.22
2 In the dwelling/ water-
sealed 26 3.49 15 10.2 4 57.14 45 5.00
3 Pit latrine 28 3.75 19 12.93 0 0 47 5.22
4 Covered dry latrine 2 0.27 3 2.04 0 0 5 0.56
5 In the community/
water sealed 3 0.4 0 0 0 3 0.33
6 In the field 660 88.47 101 68.71 1 14.29 762 84.67
7 Others 7 0.94 2 1.36 0 0 9 1.00
Grand Total 746 100 147 100 7 100 900 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Table 5 3: Classification of Households According to
Type of Cooking Fuel Used
Grand
Fuel Type Hindu % Muslim % Sikh % %
Total
Wood 563 75.47 121 82.31 0.00 684 76.00
Coal 13 1.74 3 2.04 2 28.57 18 2.00
Kerosene oil 5 0.67 0 0.00 0 0.00 5 0.56
Hay/Leaves 8 1. 0 7 3 2.04 0 0.00 11 1.22
Cow dung cake 119 15.95 12 8.16 0 0.00 131 14.56
Agricultural Waste 5 0.67 1 0.68 0 0.00 6 0.67
Goober Gas plant 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
L.P.G. 31 4.16 5 3.40 5 71.43 41 4.56
Others 1 0.13 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.11
(blank) 1 0.13 2 1.36 0 0.00 3 0.33
Grand Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.00 900 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Yes Hindu Muslim Sikh All
Death of your family members during recent
1 0 0 1
communal violence
Loss of your property during recent communal
2 2 0 4
violence
Do you feel insecure due to communal feelings 8 1 0 9
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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Employment 103 13.81 32 21.77 0 0.0 135 15.00
Sanitation 459 61.53 81 55.10 1 14.3 541 60.11
Total 746 100.00 147 100.00 7 100.0 900 100.00
Source: Based on the Primary data.
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CHAPTER V
The first and probably among the most significant aspects which needs to be
taken care of is the fact that the condition of housing has been found to be quite
unsatisfactory and receives top priority. Although IAY has contributed to
certain extent the larger section of people living below poverty line has not yet
been covered by any housing programme.
To top the list is the problem of employment. As most of the population is
reported in the age group of 0-14 i.e. child or 15-30 age group the working age
population. With increase in education the so called educated lot hesitates to
take up farming activities and roam about in search of job.
The issue that needs top priority based on our field survey is the problem of
employment and th is was highlighted by 82 percent of the respondents and the
leading issue to be handled.
Health services are not properly developed in the area. Most of the child births
takes place within household premises and hence needs proper attention. The
number of both PHCs and CHCs are much below the prescribed norm. Because
the sick are not getting proper medical attention in the government hospitals,
they are forced to be dependent on private practitioners and even the jhola
chap doctors. Because the income levels are low a sizeable number of
households who are indebted to meet their medical requirements. It is,
therefore, a matter of top priority that the PHCs and CHCs should be properly
manned and the facilities, which they are supposed to offer, should be available
all the year round in general and specifically during period when seasonal
ailments are common. In this connection it is equally important to ensure the
availability of safe drinking water and ensure proper drainage facilities.
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Though literacy level is high but still the situation of higher education is
deplorable. Drop out rates are reported to high.
Many of our respondents have expressed their desire to undertake training of
various types so that they may enhance their skills and thereby increase their
income and overcome the shabby living conditions due to poverty. Most of
them want vocational training to be provided to them. It is therefore important
that the government should take appropriate action and set up training centres
at convenient locations to ensure that those who are willing to acquire the skill
may be able to undergo short or medium duration training courses. Since
people are from the disadvantaged group these training programmes can be
subsidized because although respondents have expressed their desire to partly
pay for them their affordability levels are rather low.
Since land holding sizes are low the cultivators could be educated to diversify
their activities. If non-agricultural activities are developed properly it will prove
ex tremely beneficial in raising the levels of living of the village community as
well as in ensuring an all round development of the district as a whole.
Despite the fact that a number of promotional programmes of the government
are being implemented, the awareness level among the villagers regarding these
schemes was found to be so so. It is, therefore, desirable that concerted efforts
should be made to raise awareness levels and also to ensure that the
beneficiaries selected deserve it rightly and belong to the category for whom
they have primarily been designed. In this context it would be also appropriate
to point out that the problems related to the public distribution system,
whether issuing of BPL cards or timely, adequate and good quality of rations be
ensured. It was often found that the rich are commanding the scene.
It is rightly said that development receives an impetus if the infrastructure
facilities are developed adequately. According to the baseline survey findings in
Lucknow district the road network is not properly developed. Proper road
connectivity facilitates the movement of goods and services and this is lacking
at the village level. This aspect has been very clearly been realized by the 63
percent village folk and our respondents have accorded it top priority among
the three most important concerns of their respective villages.
Equally important is the development of the power sector. This has been a
cause of concern in the entire state and even in Lucknow people get power
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supply very intermittently. Not only is the supply irregular but its quality is
poor with wide fluctuations in voltage.
Yet another area of concern for villagers is that for undertaking various
economic activities they are unable to take loans easily at reasonable rates of
interest from the financial institutions. They are therefore forced to procure
loans from the village money lender or other sources at high rate of interest.
Though they have formed many cooperatives but most are not functioning. The
role SHGs should be stressed upon and the masses should be inculcated with
the skill to form SHGs and extract the benefit thereof.
Remedial Measures
According to the Census of India 1991 percentage of main workers to total
population stood at 32.2 percent, 82.5 percent of workers were engaged in agriculture,
percent in household industry to total main workers were 1.1 percent and literacy level
was 35.2 percent. But presently according to Census 2001 these percentages stood at
24.7, 27.5, 4.4, and 68.7 percent. In 2005-06 total pucca road per lakh of population
stood at 150.6 km., allopathic hospitals per lakh of population /CHC and PHC were
1.9, primary schools per lakh of population 54.8(2004-05). This lead us to derive that
infrastructural facilities have not extended and to focus our attention is the call of the
time.
Agriculture and Allied Activities
Development of irrigation infrastructure have been sanctioned under RIDF
programme. To improve agriculture and rural development there is no
alternative but to bring in intensive cultivation practices with the help of
mechanization and suitable sufficient use of fertilizer. This could be possible
only if the entire district is saturated with KCC coupled with investment credit
for sgricultute and allied activities side by side with awareness and skill
development programme.
The skewed distribution of land holdings vis--vis the area covered will
undoubtedlydetermine the cropping pattern and practices being followed in the
district. Land consolidation work may be launched to make the holdings viable
units.
25 percent of land is under unculturalable/ pastures and this stands at the
major drawback of our agricultural expansion.
Off season vegetable cultivation should be introduced.
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Diversification into high value crops, horticu lture, herbiculture, vegetables, etc.
may be encouraged.
Large number of tubewells and handpumps are not in working conditions.
Besides this the water is not fully utilized even from canal irrigation.
Productvity improvement through sprinkler irrigation, use of bio-fertilisers, use
of soil conditioners like gypsum in ground nut recommended.
Electricity required for agricultural activities fall short of demand.
Lucknow is famous for Dashari Aam from Kakori, Malihabad and Mal tehsils.
Even tough these areas are declared as Mango Belt these mango growers do
not get bank loans and exporting facilities for their produce easily.
Industrial Activities
Lucknow is equally famous for its Chikan craft and ceramic potteries (Chinhat).
People employed in these traditional activities do not get the required benefits
and are cheated at the hands of middle men.
Condition of SSI and Khadi Industries is very deplorable. Entrepreneurs are not
able to procure loans and other infrastructural facilities.
Socio-Economic Conditions
Conditions of primary schools buildings are satisfactory and few are in
dilapidated conditions.
Handpumps installed to provide drinking water facilities are non-functional
and the existing wells are either dried or the water is not worth drinking.
Though urbanization at large scale has taken place but bus services in the
district is still not to the mark.
Provisions made for grants to handicapped/ widows and poor backward caste
people do not reach the needy ones.
Due to unprecedented increase in population and increasing population density
environmental pollution is increasing day by day. Institutional establishments
leave density of vehicles on roads, pollution, water resources, depletion of forest
resources, space research use of fertilizers etc. are creating hell lot of a
problems.
Encouragement required to install pollution free units.
Establish village industries so that the population is diversified and move
towards villages and curb large migrations that are taking place .
Stop river and other water pollution.
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Plantation of trees should be encouraged by government as well as private
parties to enhance environmental balance.
Chemical fertilizer usage should be replaced by compost fertilizers and
awareness regarding its usefulness should be spread.
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